BES-125: Understanding Disciplines and Subjects

The Course,BES-125: Understanding Disciplines and Subjectsis one of the Core Courses studied in the first year of the IGNOU B.Ed. Programme. The Course is developed as per the NCTE Regulations, 2014. The Course provides the learners an understanding about the formation of an academic discipline by categorizing a specific type of knowledge and further it explains about framing a School Subject from the discipline. The course enables the learners to understand the distinctive characteristics and perspectives of a discipline and its academic manifestation. This course will also help the learners to understand disciplinary knowledge and its constitution as a discipline. Further it helps the learners to understand the framing of a School Subject, its curriculum, and to address other areas of knowledge in the curriculum. The course concludes with discussing the factors that contributes for the choices of streams and subjects for the students.

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Week-1

Module-1

Knowledge and Disciplines

Knowledge and Disciplines

1. Knowledge and Information

2. Sources and Ways of Acquiring Knowledge

3. Categorisation of Knowledge for Constituting a Discipline

4. Concept and Characteristics of a Discipline

Week-2

Module-2

Perspectives of Disciplinary Knowledge (Part-1)

Perspectives of Disciplinary Knowledge (Part-1)

5. Discipline Specific Processes to Acquire Knowledge

6. Evolution and Framing of Discipline

Week-3

Module-3

Perspectives of Disciplinary Knowledge (Part-2)

Perspectives of Disciplinary Knowledge (Part-2)

7. Context and Perspectives of Disciplines

8. Inter-relationships between and among the Disciplines

Week-4

Module-4

Disciplinary Knowledge and School Education

Disciplinary Knowledge and School Education

9. Pedagogical Concerns of Disciplinary Knowledge

10. Classifying and Accommodating Specific Areas of Knowledge

11. Framing School Subjects

Week-5

Module-5

Subject Concerns in School Curriculum

Subject Concerns in School Curriculum

12. Curriculum, Syllabi and School Education

13. Domains of School Subjects

14. Curricular Materials – Its Types and Importance

15. Implications of Curricular Divisions for Learner-Centred Pedagogy

Week-6

Module-6

Organizing Subjects in School Curriculum (Part-1)

Organizing Subjects in School Curriculum (Part-1)

16. Bases of Organising Subjects in School Curriculum

17. Appropriateness of Subjects in Curriculum at Different Stages

Week-7

Module-7

Organizing Subjects in School Curriculum (Part-2)

Organizing Subjects in School Curriculum (Part-2))

18. Addressing the Needs of the Stakeholders in Formulation and Transaction of School Subjects

19. Issues of Uniform Vs Locally Designed Syllabus

Week-8

Module-8

Making Subject Choices

Making Subject Choices

20. Streams and Subject Choices for the Learners

21. Factors Determining Learners Choices of Streams and Subjects